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Creating a Arch Linux live USB is easy. In this post, I will walk you throughdownloading and verifying the image, finding your USB drive and copying theimage onto it, all from the convenience of the command line.

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Download image and PGP signature

Download the latest Arch Linux image from https://www.archlinux.org/download/.The preferred option is to download the image using BitTorrent, in order not toburden the Arch servers unnecessarily.

Verify downloaded image

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If this disk is being created on an Arch Linux system, you could alsoinvoke:

The -v switch is short for --verify.

Insert USB drive and check the device name

The -l is short for --list, and will display the device names andpartition tables.

Output will look like:

Check the output and find the device name of the USB (for instance/dev/sdc). Make sure this device is not mounted, otherwise thenext command will fail. Also make sure you note the device name, andnot a partition (indicated by a numeral at the end: /dev/sdc1, forexample).

Copy Arch Linux image to USB drive

Breakdown:

  • if indicates the input file (the .iso of the live Linux distro).
  • of, likewise, points to the output file, which is a device in thiscase. Note that /dev/sdX needs to be replaced with the device namewe found in the previous step.
  • bs=64K indicates the block size, which means that dd will readand write up to 64K bytes at a time. The default is 512 bytes. Itreally depends what the optimal block size is, but severalsourcesindicate that 64K is a good bet on somewhat modern to modernhardware.
  • oflag stands for “output flag”. The sync flag will make surethat all data is written to the USB stick when the dd commandexits, so it will be safe to remove the USB stick.
  • status=progress indicates the level of information that is printedduring file transfer. progress shows periodic transfer statistics.

Notice that the device does not need to be partitioned or empty beforethis operation. When dd writes to a device rather than a partition,all data on the drive – including partitions – will be erased anyway.

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We are a port of Arch Linux, which aims for simplicity and full control to the end user. We provide a light-weight base structure that allows you to shape the system to your needs.

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We build optimized packages for soft-float ARMv5te, hard-float ARMv6 and ARMv7, and ARMv8 AArch64 instruction sets to use each platform to its full potential.

Up to Date

New software versions are packaged as they are released, ensuring you are always on the leading edge of stable software releases.

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Arch Linux ARM is a distribution of Linux for ARM computers. We provide targeted kernel and software support for soft-float ARMv5te, hard-float ARMv6 and ARMv7, and ARMv8 AArch64 instruction sets on a variety of consumer devices and development platforms. Our collaboration with Arch Linux brings users the best platform, newest packages, and installation support.

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Arch Linux ARM carries forward the Arch Linux philosophy of simplicity and user-centrism, targeting and accommodating competent Linux users by giving them complete control and responsibility over the system. Instructions are provided to assist in navigating the nuances of installation on the various ARM platforms; however, the system itself will offer little assistance to the user.

The entire distribution is on a rolling-release cycle that can be updated daily through small packages instead of huge updates on a defined release schedule. Most packages are unmodified from what the upstream developer originally released.

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